1902 Details, Meaning 1902 Article and Explanation Guide

1902 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Years: 1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1902 in art 1902 in film 1902 in literature 1902 in music 1902 in science 1902 in sports 1902 in Canada 1902 in Ireland List of state leaders in 1902 List of religious leaders in 1902 List of international organization leaders in 1902

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 January-April
1.2 May-December
1.3 unknown dates

2 Births

2.4 January-February
2.5 March-April
2.6 May-October
2.7 November-December

3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

Events

January-April

January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
France, Loisy's L'évangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis
February 11 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
February 15 – Berlin underground opened
March 1 - Rear Admiral Frank F. Wildes takes command of the USS Kentucky (BB-6)
March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
March 10 - Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
March 31 - Disputed first powered heavier-than-air flight; most date it 1903 if at all
April 2 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.

May-December

May 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroys the town of St. Pierre, and kills over 30,000 people. Only a small handful of St. Pierre's residents survived the blast.
May 13 - Alfonso XIII of Spain formally begins his reign
May 15 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).
May 17 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism
May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States
May 29 - Lord Rosebury opens London School of Economics
May 31 - Peace of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War
June 15 - The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago, IL and New York, NY.
June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
June 26 - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit
July 11 - Retirement of Lord Salisbury from the post of British prime minister after almost 14 years
July 11 - Order of the Garter conferred on Archduke Ferdinand
August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
September 3 - Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.
October 21 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
November 30 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.

unknown dates

Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud begin to expand what becomes Saudi Arabia
Roland Molineux, The Knickerbocker Murderer, is acquitted
US president Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act
The catholic church friendly took over-hand in Nauru and then became Nauru's main religion.